Unauthorized Test Possession, Purchase or Supplying

Some offenses in this category are obviously dishonest. For example:

• Theft of a copy of an exam from a departmental or faculty office.
• Purchase of a copy of an exam obtained surreptitiously from a duplicating facility.

In other cases, it may not be as clear that possession is unauthorized. For example, you might obtain a copy of an old exam from a friend without realizing that the friend had failed to return the exam to his instructor as required.

In online courses, answer keys are sometimes provided immediately after you have submitted an exam, but copying or sharing such an answer key, or allowing someone else to do so, would be a breach of academic integrity.

Before accepting any test materials prior to an exam, you should make every effort to be sure that these materials have been made available to all students in the course with the instructor's awareness and permission.